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ʾAlfīyah is one of the most reliable grammatical works in the Arabic literature. It is a versified work including 1,000 couplets composed in Rajaz metric. ʾAlfīyah is compiled in 71 chapters. Numerous commentaries have been written on this work so far, of which Suyūṭ‭ī's commentary is the most popular in the Iranian religious schools. — Multiple dates; Herat

Wadh.Minasian 458

Wadham College, University of Oxford

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For the main catalogue entry, see: Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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Title

ʾAlfīyah is one of the most reliable grammatical works in the Arabic literature. It is a versified work including 1,000 couplets composed in Rajaz metric. ʾAlfīyah is compiled in 71 chapters. Numerous commentaries have been written on this work so far, of which Suyūṭ‭ī's commentary is the most popular in the Iranian religious schools. — Multiple dates; Herat

Shelfmark

Wadh.Minasian 458

Place of origin

Herat

Date

1856

Language

Arabic

Contents

Author: ‎Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1274‏ ابن مالک، محمد بن عبدالله، -۱۲۷۴ Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh bin Mālik al-Andulusī, 600-12 Shaʿbān 672/1204-1274 ابن مالک، محمد بن عبدالله بن مالک الاندلسی، ۶۰۰-۱۲ شعبان ۶۷۲ق/۱۲۰۴-۱۲۷۴م Title: ʾAlfīyah Title: الفیه

Form

codex

Support

Western paper (watermark), natural buff, varying thickness (thin, regular and thick), one size. Brittle paper.

Physical extent

60 ff. 8 5

Hands

Beautiful Shikastah, one hand, regular hand. Titles are unwritten. Muḥammad Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad Bāqir Khan محمد اسماعیل ابن محمد باقر خان

Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Subject

Arabic language--Grammar

Arabic language--Syntax

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  • محمد اسماعیل ابن محمد باقر خان
  • Mohammad Emami
  • Ali Mir-Ansari

  • Minasian, Caro Owen

  • Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1274

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